What Is One To Make Of This?

[ichkeria]

Does this prove that Republicans (the US sort) have a sense of humour?

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/texas-gop-lawmaker-keep-syrian-refugees-out-of-our-state-because-its-too-easy-to-get-a-gun-here/

[mikey4444]

Well....I would have thought that Texas has more than its fair share of gun violence already.

Perhaps Mr Dale should start sorting his own problems out first !

[retrocop]

Why would a Syrian refugee require a firearm when they are fleeing to find asylum away from guns in their country of domicile in the first place?

[whiskeryron]

// Why would a Syrian refugee require a firearm when they are fleeing to find asylum away from guns in their country of domicile in the first place? //
How does one tell the difference between a Syrian refugee & a terrorist member determined to enter a country to commit acts of violence ?

[retrocop]

whiskeryron
Yes exactly.The U.S. do not have a sense of humour when it comes to homeland security.

[bazwillrun]

"Perhaps Mr Dale should start sorting his own problems out first ! "

a bit like here, we should look after our own problems before letting this lot in...and all the calais mob thatsstil flooding in here every single day...

[Hypognosis]

@Ichkeria

I shudder to say this but, ever since Facebook gave non-passport-owning USanians the power to get into pub-level discussions with people on this side of the Atlantic, they have shed their "don't do irony" stereotyped image at a remarkable speed.

I suspected they've always been capable but just didn't indulge due to some unspoken code of 'good manners'.

Now, as to whether *this* specific American was using humour, consciously, I really cannot tell. Personally, I would prefer that he was living up to my stereotyped view of (humourless) Republicans.

[anotheoldgit]

Surely they talk from experience look what mass immigration has done to that country.

mikey4444

/// Perhaps Mr Dale should start sorting his own problems out first ! ///

Why did you shy away from adding, "before introducing even more"?

[mikey4444]

AOG...."mass" immigration is exactly what has made America what it is today. It is a country formed 99% from immigration ::::

“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”

Otherwise the Cherokee, Sioux, Blackfoot, etc, etc would be in the White House !

[Svejk]

No they wouldn't. They'd still be in tepees pinging arrows at each other.

[Togo]

The white lodge mikey.

[mikey4444]

lol Togo !

[retrocop]

Well the indigenous Indians had their country stolen fom them by immigrants.Best we learn not to let Moslems steal our country and occupy
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